Anti-Semitism among Hungarian refugees in Austria will increase unless ways are found to avoid the demoralizing effects of the large refugee camps, Edward H. Meyerding, chief of the Quaker refugee mission in Austria, predicted here today.
Mr. Meyerding, who is presently visiting Washington, said that a policy advocated by a number of officials of the Austrian and U.S. Governments and of the voluntary agencies to concentrate the refugees in a few large camps in an effort to simplify administrative responsibilities has proved in the past to be demoralizing and conducive to anti-Semitism.
Furthermore, he said, the number of refugees concentrated in large camps is likely to increase since more refugees, figuring in the thousands, are expected to enter Austria by spring or early summer. He estimated there are now approximately 10,000 Hungarian Jewish refugees in Austrian camps.
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